The following is a recording of a conversation between Nadine O’Connor on behalf of Fathers4Justice, and Gillian Palmer, Director Greenwich Children’s Services. The conversation took place today after Greenwich Council failed to honour an agreement to respond to F4J allegations by the end of this week.

The recording proves that Greenwich Council are dishonest about serious child welfare concerns in the borough and are engaged in a face-saving cover-up.

In fact, Stuart Godfrey, Assistant Director of the Department of Central Services at the Royal Borough of Greenwich, went as far as to slander F4J founder Matt O’Connor by claiming he had lied about Greenwich paying Hope Empowered.

Further, despite claims by Ms Palmer that they have stopped using Hope Empowered pending an investigation, the organisation is STILL involved with the case concerned and are working with Greenwich Children’s Services as part of the Core Review group.

The case is one of the worst examples of anti-father discrimination F4J have dealt with in recent times.

We believe it is a matter of public interest that this recording is published for the following reasons:

1. The council’s failure to investigate serious drugs and violence allegations has put children in the borough at risk. Watch the violent attack on a dad involving Greenwich Domestic Violence charity Hope Empowered

2. The council’s failure to investigate allegations about Social Worker, Corlea Jeffrey, drug taking and inappropriate relationships at Greenwich Children’s Services, puts children in the borough at risk

3. The council’s coaching and manipulation of the child concerned by Corlea Jeffrey constitutes child abuse

4. The council’s attempt to alienate and isolate the fathers daughter from him, constitutes child abuse

5. The council have made NO effort whatsoever to support the father or provide him with assistance in seeing his daughter, in contrast to the payments made to agencies used by the mother by Greenwich Children’s Services

6. The council’s actions breach the fathers human rights, including Article 8, European Convention on Human Rights, right to family life.

7. The council’s unreasonable pressurising of him not to attend school events and other functions, including pressurising other agencies to deny him access – in breach of an existing court order – constitutes coercion

8. The council’s support for the mother Lyndsey Appleyard in breaching the court order is in defiance of the law. If the council believe the order is wrong, they should apply to the court to vary the order.

9. The council is acting in a wholly discriminatory manner against the father which is consistent with previous evidence of institutional discrimination by the council. F4J founder Matt O’Connor has already written about Greenwich Councils anti-father discrimination in The Telegraph last year.

10. This case is likely to be the tip of a Titanic sized iceberg of other abuse and discrimination cases in the borough

Ms Palmer – who is paid a whopping £150,000 a year – also attempted to studiously avoid certain questions, obfuscate and provided misleading responses to direct questions from Nadine O’Connor.

A matter of further concern is the fact that Ms Palmer was the Director of Children’s Services in Barnet, when tragic toddler Sean Denton was killed by his mother in the infamous “Baby S” scandal.

Today’s admissions have been dragged out of a council more concerned with protecting their reputation, than protecting the child concerned in this case.

Despite agreeing to respond to our allegations – and asking Fathers4Justice to suspend their campaign until they could investigate our claims – months have passed without any credible response to the allegations to set out before them.

Worst still, the council are now pursuing what can only be described as a discriminatory vendetta against the father, seeking to exclude him from his daughter’s life and school.

Said Nadine O’Connor, “How can any parent have faith in Greenwich Council given their appalling conduct in this case? Their response at best has been economical with the truth, and at worst downright dishonest.”

“Yet again the Council has engaged in a deliberate act of gender apartheid. Its role in this case has been to pour more oil on the fire of a conflict that should have ended long ago.”

“Their response to serious child welfare allegations made by the father, has been to deliberate punish him for doing the right thing. It is our view their conduct is not only deeply troubling, but constitutes institutional abuse of the child concerned.”

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